Andrew Loomis quotes

“To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.”
-- Andrew Loomis

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“If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.”
-- Andrew Loomis

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“Art without color would lose much of its purpose.”
-- Andrew Loomis

Source : Andrew Loomis (2018). “The Eye Of The Painter”, p.159, EDITORA BIBLIOMUNDI SERVIÇOS DIGITAIS LTDA

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“To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a “gift.””
-- Andrew Loomis

Source : Andrew Loomis (1943). “Figure drawing for all it's worth”, Viking Pr

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“I feel that talent means little unless coupled with an insatiable desire to give an excellent personal demonstration of ability...talent must be in company with a capacity for unlimited effort which provides the power that eventually hurdles the difficulties that would frustrate lukewarm enthusiasm.”
-- Andrew Loomis

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“Observation and study are necessary to achieve mastery of light and form”
-- Andrew Loomis

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“A head is not drawn until you can feel the unseen side.”
-- Andrew Loomis

Source : Andrew Loomis (2017). “Drawing the head & hands”, p.24, EDITORA BIBLIOMUNDI SERVIÇOS DIGITAIS LTDA

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“The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.”
-- Andrew Loomis

Source : Andrew Loomis (2017). “The Successful Drawing”, p.29, EDITORA BIBLIOMUNDI SERVIÇOS DIGITAIS LTDA

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“It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.”
-- Andrew Loomis

Source : Andrew Loomis (1943). “Figure drawing for all it's worth”, Viking Pr

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“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

“I think that for some people faith is good - they have something to draw to.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Armchair hater, I wouldn't piss on your coffin But when I see your picture I draw dicks on it.”

Source : Song: Tetra, Album: Skelethon, 2012

“I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it!”

“God draws straight with crooked lines.”

Source : Andrew Greeley (2008). “Common Ground: A Priest and a Rabbi Read Scripture Together”, p.219, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

“Our fear of not mattering much has the potential to draw us away from what matters most.”

“I've felt depressed many times in my life, so I can draw on those times in my life when I need to.”

“All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?”

“I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.”

Source : Barbara Hepworth (Dame), Alan Bowness (1967). “Drawings from a sculptor's landscape”

“Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.”